Rat Extermination
Professional Home Pest Control Solutions
What are Rats?
Rats can grow to be anywhere from a few inches in length to up to 10 inches. Tapout Pest Control explain rats often live near places with food scraps such as dumpsters and garbage cans. Although these pests can be found in the wild, they usually congregate in more populated areas like cities and towns. There are more than 60 species of this particular rodent, but the most common types in the United States include House Rats, Norway Rats, and Roof Rats. While rats can live in a variety of environments, they tend to prefer warmer temperatures and live in areas near humans as they feed off scraps of food and garbage. Because of rats resourceful nature, they are quite good at finding their way into homes and businesses throughout New Jersey where they may have easier access to food and water. Because rats tend to travel in packs, you may likely have multiple rats in your home or business by the time you notice one.
Rats start their packs when a male and female decide to nest in a suitable area. If you see a rat, our pest control experts at Tapout Pest recommend immediate rat treatment and rat control measures.
How Do I Identify Rats?
Rats are nocturnal creatures, which means that it may take some time before you notice them. Residential rodent infestations can be easier to identify as you are more likely to notice rustling or other sounds of movement in your walls or ceiling during the night, experts from Tapout Pest explain. For business infestations, it can be more difficult since most people are not in the office at night.
Pest control experts at Tapout Pest say the telltale sign of a rodent infestation is rat droppings or urine smell, which will help you identify the type of rodent and the extent of the infestation. If you are finding a large amount of rat droppings in various sizes, this could indicate a large-scale infestation. The location of the rat droppings will also reveal where the rodents may be nesting or spending most of their time.
Other signs of rat infections include holes in the wall. Rats will chew through walls, leaving behind holes that are about the size of a quarter. They may chew on other areas of your NJ home or business where there is exposed wood or wooden furniture. Rats often build nests within your home or business by shredding pieces of paper or string, so be on the lookout for any sign of these rodent creations, explain the pest control experts at Tapout Pest Control.
How Did I Get Rats?
Like many other types of pests, rats are looking for a place with shelter and food, particularly if rats have a mate with whom they are trying to nest. Rats usually make their way into homes and businesses through small gaps in doors or pipes, holes, or openings in the foundation or roof, or any other tiny entrance, explain exterminators at Tapout Pest. If you have a large amount of trash sitting around, this may also attract rats to the area.
Our pest control experts at Tapout Pest recommend you take steps as soon as possible to get rid of rats and implement rat prevention techniques. Most rats live between two to three years.
How Are Rats Effecting My Home and Business?
If you have ever run into a rat at your home or business, you know that feeling you experience. Most people are squeamish around rats. They project an image of uncleanliness and filth – even if the sighting happens in an area that is clean. It can make you uncomfortable in your home. At a business, it can keep customers from coming in your facility or from ever coming back.
There are also worries about diseases that rats carry and can transfer to humans. Once you have identified a potential rat problem in your New Jersey home or business, it’s essential that you call Tapout Pest Control to get rid of the rats before they pose a serious threat to your health. Rodents are known to carry many harmful diseases that can easily be transmitted to humans. Rat-bite fever, Salmonella, and Murine Typhus are all examples of diseases that rats can be responsible for carrying and spreading. Typically, diseases are passed through their feces and urine, but if you come into direct contact with one of these rodents, the rats may even bite. Once you get rid of the rats, it’s important to sanitize all surfaces to reduce the chance of someone getting sick.
How Do I Prevent Rats?
Once your experts at Tapout control your rat infestation you must implement strict pest control methods to prevent this incident from happening again in the future. Have your home or business fully inspected for any holes or openings that may have allowed the rodents to enter your home by the pest control professionals at Tapout Pest. You should also enforce a greater level of sanitation to avoid attracting rats to your property in the first place. Any items that might be used as a rat nesting material like piles of leaves or mulch should be removed from the property as soon as possible.
